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The Fate who calls herself Mountain tried to convince some of her neighbors to allow the occasional mountain in their lands, for stability purposes.
"I meant no insult!" Dodge ball of lava. "I don't intend to interfere, you said no!" Dodge house-sized spear of ice. "I'm leaving peacefully, okay, so stop tearing up the tile!"
"You'll respawn at home. No permanent damage. You interrupted an important meeting, you need to learn a lesson about territory, mountain bitch." Dodge- no, fail to dodge a thrown tree, and then another ice ball. The next sphere of magma is what destroyed that form.
She wakes up, stripped of all her tools and enchantments and even clothes, and groans in pain.
Steel in Wormverse
sturdycoldsteel
sturdycoldsteel
"It's just... He'd be able to do so much more if he just talked to folks. Or listened. Whatever. The way he acts isn't human, humans talk." Leaving aside how Mountain isn't human either. She drains the cup. "Another, please."
He gives her another. "Well, I reck'n if anyone ain't human it's 'im, and who knows what goes on in 'is head? Maybe there's a reason for that. 'Least he's doin' some good with 'is power."
sturdycoldsteel
She wants to complain about having to punch Behemoth in the face, and watch dozens of people die in front of her, because Scion wasn't fast enough. But she's not yet drunk enough to just blurt that out. "Secrets are annoying."
The barkeep shrugs. "Ev'ryone's got secrets. Reck'n the most powerful man in the world's got his, too."
sturdycoldsteel
She orders a third drink after a couple of minutes. There's a limit to how drunk a body that's not really human anymore can get, and she's going to reach it.
sturdycoldsteel
Her troubles are mostly ones she can't talk about, openly at least. Homesickness, anger at the Endbringers, frustration at Scion and the whole Glam situation.
Is the bartender concerned by five glasses? Because that's about as drunk as this body can get. She leaves a $10 tip and visits the bathroom, then heads for the back alley where she stored her rocksuit.
Is the bartender concerned by five glasses? Because that's about as drunk as this body can get. She leaves a $10 tip and visits the bathroom, then heads for the back alley where she stored her rocksuit.
The bartender is not. She may look quite drunk but still not passed-out drunk or picking-fights drunk, this is all business.
sturdycoldsteel
She briefly wonders whether flying drunk is illegal. Eh, probably a bad idea even if it's not, she'll get lost trying to find her mountain.
She calls Laura and informs her that she decided to get drunk, because Behemoth, so please move her 9 AM job to noon, then goes to find a cheap motel.
And the next day it's back to business as usual.
She calls Laura and informs her that she decided to get drunk, because Behemoth, so please move her 9 AM job to noon, then goes to find a cheap motel.
And the next day it's back to business as usual.
There aren't any laws about sobriety while flying, unless she's flying a plane. Which she's not.
In any case, business as usual happens, and time elapses.
In any case, business as usual happens, and time elapses.
sturdycoldsteel
She keeps building things, being paid, and spending money to finish her base and set up a property-holding business. Laura gets a substantial raise for managing it all.
Soon the next Endbringer attack is approaching, bringing with it reminders of the Glam thing. How's Glam doing?
Soon the next Endbringer attack is approaching, bringing with it reminders of the Glam thing. How's Glam doing?
sturdycoldsteel
This is surprising. Mountain is surprised. But good for Glam! Probably. At least they can try pivot their reputation for villainous competence into a more heroic one, right? And Mountain just bets the webshow went up in quality and maybe also popularity when they joined, because of various peoples' support.
She writes an email, Glam, want to work together against an Endbringer again?
She writes an email, Glam, want to work together against an Endbringer again?
sturdycoldsteel
I provide mobile firing platforms that follow him, of course. I was thinking you could try making a spike of something just as hard as the inner part of an Endbringer, have someone use it as a weapon. And if not, the lightsaber at least helped. But I'll probably be spending some of my time trying to stop or reverse whatever underground structure damage he does.
mxglam
How do I get enough people to actually believe that whatever I make is as hard as that, is the problem.
sturdycoldsteel
Email is not necessarily safe from spying! Delete this entire email chain. I will too. I don't know enough about computers to know if this will solve the problem.
mxglam
It won't, but in any case Protectorate emails are tinker-safe from spying, and I'm unlikely to be a target of scrutiny. But yeah you're right, deleting.
sturdycoldsteel
She deletes emails and starts a new thread to the conversation. I've been practicing with my ocean subtype. It's almost nothing compared to my mountain powers but I think I might be able to track Leviathan with it. Maybe. My main strategy will be erecting walls and barriers and providing well-defended mobile firing platforms.
sturdycoldsteel
Walls and so on then. Last time I had some success slowing it down by making hills around its feet.
mxglam
My working hypothesis is that the Endbringers are actually jobbing the fights, so I wouldn't rely on that.
sturdycoldsteel
Ugh, fucking Endbringers. We fight our best anyway, yeah? That's just what we have to do.